Teamwork makes the apocalypse work.
FYI: You can’t hack the nuclear launching computers. They aren’t connected to any outside networks, and actually use 8-inch floppy disks, which were state of the art when the silos were built.
The DOD has actually had to purchase them on eBay.
I too heard about the Marburg outbreak in Rwanda. Like mpox, it’s probably not going to leave the area, and if it does, people who know what they’re doing will deal with it.
Here’s a TED Talk from the one known American case. TL : DW - while she doesn’t mention it here, she was treated in a pediatric ICU, not an isolation unit, because the hospital, which was in the Denver area, had no adult ICU beds. No secondary cases appeared.
100% agree with your despair and confusion if this really happens, but disagree with your solution. Can we limit it to the idiotic states that vote for the moron? I live on the ID/WA border, so I’ll be fucked, but why punish the sane locations?
…I think you may just given Putin more incentive to help Trump win…
Fine. Drone strikes to the red states.
I knew my old Commodore 64 would be good for something.
I’m not sure Putin could help tRump ad-lib a fart at a bean-eating contest. He’s a textbook definition of what Kissinger called “a paper tiger.”
You guys are absolutely no help in planning a depressing apocalypse.
Paper tiger wasn’t Kissinger’s phrase, it was ChiCom: 纸老虎 zhǐlǎohǔ
Right. I knew it was from that era.
Nope. Your C64 used 5 1/4" disks. Maybe 3 1/2" if you held out to the very end when they released the 1581
Mine mostly used cassette tapes.
During that era, I saw a cartoon where someone downloaded a report onto a tape but didn’t have a printer, so he brought the tape to his professor in a boom box and played it. “A bunch of scratchy noise came out.”
I’m panicking. I think everything is trending towards a GOP House and Senate. And Trump for president. Gonna be a huge mess.
There’s no real data that suggests this is the case. By the numbers, it’s been a close race since Aug, perhaps with a slight edge for Harris, and that remains true today. Nothing significant has changed.
It’s absolutely significant that time has passed. A close race in Aug when Kamala has apparent momentum and time to grow is very different then being stalled out in a close race in the final weeks.
And that’s the panic-worthy problem. An insignificant change in favour of the Democrats isn’t good enough. Unless one is a wizard or a prophet, then you can’t say what the outcome will be one way or another.
Trump’s popular support can’t really grow past his 2016 & 2020 popular-vote percentage (46.1 and 46.8, respectively). But his support does have an apparent hard floor of maybe 43-45% of the electorate (MAGA + Rs holding their nose + never-Dems + a very few others).
Given that, there’s never really been an avenue for Harris to dominate in the national polling and start racking up +8s, +10s, +12s or anything like that. Harris getting some national polling in the +5-6 range is about the reasonable limit – and IMHO, it’s been good news for her campaign that she’s been able to poll that high.
I think Democrats will be slightly favored to take the House, riding Kamala’s coattails. The Senate, though - it’s difficult to envision any scenario where the R’s don’t take 51 seats. West Virginia is a lock for Jim Justice and Jon Tester is still trailing in Montana by 7%. Nothing the Democrats or Tester have done suggests that they will flip that 7% deficit by Election Day.
Cruz could lose in Texas. It could come to a 50/50, certainly. Possible, not probable.
There’s no such thing as momentum in politics. We have to accept that the polls show a close race and that hasn’t changed and probably won’t change. That doesn’t mean it will be a close race - we’ll find out in a few weeks. But there’s no more reason to believe she should have gone up in the polls than gone down. That it hasn’t moved isn’t any more or less surprising.
There’s no more reason to panic note than at any point in this race.